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Alcohol Intake Between Menarche and First Pregnancy: a Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Risk Ying Liu, Graham A DOI:10.1093/jnci/djt213 © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press. Advance Access publication August 28, 2013 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ARTICLE For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected]. Alcohol Intake Between Menarche and First Pregnancy: A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Risk Ying Liu, Graham A. Colditz, Bernard Rosner, Catherine S. Berkey, Laura C. Collins, Stuart J. Schnitt, James L. Connolly, Wendy Y. Chen, Walter C. Willett, Rulla M. Tamimi Manuscript received March 13, 2013; revised July 2, 2013; accepted July 2, 2013. Correspondence to: Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH, Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S Euclid Ave, Campus Box 8100, St Louis, MO 63110 (e-mail: [email protected]). Background Adult alcohol consumption during the previous year is related to breast cancer risk. Breast tissue is particularly susceptible to carcinogens between menarche and first full-term pregnancy. No study has characterized the con- tribution of alcohol consumption during this interval to risks of proliferative benign breast disease (BBD) and breast cancer. Methods We used data from 91 005 parous women in the Nurses’ Health Study II who had no cancer history, completed questions on early alcohol consumption in 1989, and were followed through June 30, 2009, to analyze breast cancer risk. A subset of 60 093 women who had no history of BBD or cancer in 1991 and were followed through June 30, 2001, were included in the analysis of proliferative BBD. Relative risks (RRs) were estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression. Results We identified 1609 breast cancer cases and 970 proliferative BBD cases confirmed by central histology review. Alcohol consumption between menarche and first pregnancy, adjusted for drinking after first pregnancy, was associated with risks of breast cancer (RR = 1.11 per 10 g/day intake; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.00 to 1.23) and proliferative BBD (RR = 1.16 per 10g/day intake; 95% CI = 1.02 to 1.32). Drinking after first pregnancy had a similar risk for breast cancer (RR = 1.09 per 10 g/day intake; 95% CI = 0.96 to 1.23) but not for BBD. The association between drinking before first pregnancy and breast neoplasia appeared to be stronger with longer menarche to first pregnancy intervals. Conclusions Alcohol consumption before first pregnancy was consistently associated with increased risks of proliferative BBD and breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst;2013;105:1571–1578 Alcohol is considered by the International Agency for Research time when breast tissue is particularly vulnerable to carcinogenic on Cancer to be causally related to invasive breast cancer (here- stimuli (18). Alcohol consumption in late adolescence and early after called “breast cancer”) (1), with a 7% to 10% increase in risk adulthood is associated with increased risk of proliferative benign for each 10 g alcohol consumed daily by adult women (2–4). One breast disease (BBD), a known risk marker for breast cancer (19,20). mechanism may be alcohol-induced increases in circulating estro- We therefore hypothesized that alcohol consumed before gens and subsequently epithelial cell proliferation (3). However, first pregnancy is associated with risks of both proliferative BBD the risk attributable to alcohol intake during adolescence and early and breast cancer, independent of drinking after first pregnancy. adulthood remains inconclusive (2,5–12). Such an association may be stronger when the menarche to first Younger age at menarche and older age at first full-term preg- pregnancy interval is longer. nancy (hereafter called “pregnancy”) are associated with increased risk for breast cancer (13–15). Breast tissue undergoes rapid cellular proliferation between these reproductive events, and risk accumu- Methods lates most rapidly until the terminal differentiation that accompa- The Nurses’ Health Study II (NHSII) was established in 1989 when nies first pregnancy. First pregnancy has both a short-term adverse 116 671 female registered nurses aged 25 to 44 years completed effect on risk and a long-term reduction in subsequent risk accu- a mailed questionnaire about their medical history, reproductive mulation (16). The longer the interval between menarche and first history, and lifestyles. Follow-up questionnaires mailed biennially pregnancy the greater is a woman’s breast cancer risk (14,15,17). updated information on lifestyles, reproductive factors, and medi- Therefore, menarche to first pregnancy represents a window of cal events. The overall response rate to each questionnaire through jnci.oxfordjournals.org JNCI | Articles 1571 2003 was 90% (20). NHSII participants provided implied consent Because biopsy specimens were reviewed for women who with return of biennial questionnaires. This study was approved by reported a first diagnosis of biopsy-confirmed BBD during the pre- the Human Subjects Committees at the Harvard School of Public vious 2 years on the 1993 to 2001 questionnaires, the analytic period Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. for proliferative BBD was from 1991 to 2001. Among the 91 005 participants eligible for the analysis of breast cancer risk, 30 912 Alcohol Consumption were excluded from the analysis of proliferative BBD because they Participants were asked in 1989 about their alcohol consumption reported a prior history of BBD (n = 29 496) on the 1989 or 1991 in four age periods (ages 15–17, 18–22, 23–30, and 31–40 years). questionnaires, died or developed cancer before 1991 (n = 261), their Participants were asked about the total number of drinks of alco- biopsy date was before the return date of the 1991 questionnaire hol (including beer, wine, and liquor together) consumed at differ- (n = 40), or their parity was missing in 1991 (n = 1115). Therefore, ent ages, with nine response categories ranging from “none or <1/ 60 093 women were included in the analysis of proliferative BBD. month” to “40+/week.” One drink was defined as one bottle/can of beer, a 4-ounce glass of wine, or a shot of liquor. The estimated Breast Cancer Cases content of ethanol per alcoholic drink was 12.0 g (19). Incident breast cancer cases were ascertained on biennial follow- Alcohol consumption over the previous year was asked sepa- up questionnaires or by a search of the National Death Index. For rately for beer, for wine, and for liquor in the nine categories rang- self-reported breast cancer cases, permission to review medical ing from “none or <1/month” to “40+/week.” Total amounts of records was requested. A review of pathology reports, which were alcohol consumed in the previous year were calculated based on the obtained for 92% of the self-reported diagnoses, confirmed 99% of equivalents of 12.8 g for regular beer, 11.0 g for wine, and 14.0 g for self-reported breast cancers (21). Carcinoma in situ was excluded liquor (19). Current drinking was updated in 1991, 1995, 1999, and from the analysis. Estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone recep- 2003. During the follow-up, participants were asked about their tor (PR) status were abstracted from pathology reports. alcohol consumption separately for regular and light beer, red and white wine, and liquor. The estimated ethanol content of a serving Biopsy-Confirmed Proliferative BBD of light beer was 11.3 g (21). Slides from benign breast biopsies were reviewed by one of three Cumulative average alcohol intake, a measure of intensity of pathologists (L. C. Collins, S. J. Schnitt, J. L. Connolly) who were drinking, between menarche and first pregnancy (of ≥6 months blinded to participants’ exposures. BBD was classified according to gestation) was calculated by multiplying drinking (grams per day) the criteria of Dupont and Page (22) into one of three categories: in each individual age period before first pregnancy by the length nonproliferative, proliferative without atypia, and atypical hyperpla- of the corresponding period, summing the contributions from each sia. Among 3273 participants reporting a first diagnosis of biopsy- age period, and dividing by the interval length (years). For example, confirmed BBD on the 1993 to 2001 questionnaires, breast biopsy for a woman who had menarche at age 15 years and first pregnancy specimens were reviewed for 2120 women, and 2056 BBD cases at age 25 years, cumulative drinking was obtained by summing alco- were confirmed (20). Given that proliferative BBD is an established hol consumed at three different ages (ages 15–17 years, 18–22 years, predictor of breast cancer, the analysis of BBD risk was restricted to and 23–30 years) that were separately adjusted for the proportions 1348 proliferative BBD cases with or without atypia (20). of the corresponding individual age periods in her total menarche to first pregnancy duration of 10 years. Because alcohol consumption Statistical Analyses before age 15 years was not collected, cumulative drinking from age For the analysis of breast cancer risk, participants contributed 15 onward was calculated if menarche occurred before age 15 years. person-time from the return date of the 1989 questionnaire until We also calculated cumulative average alcohol consumption the date of diagnosis, date of death, date of drop-out, date of self- between first pregnancy and menopause (or current age for pre- reported cancer other than nonmelanoma skin cancer, or June menopausal women) in a similar manner to examine whether the 2009, whichever came first. Women who developed any type of association with alcohol consumption before first pregnancy is cancer (except nonmelanoma skin cancer) were censored at the independent of drinking after first pregnancy. Similarly, estimates time of their diagnosis. We used Cox proportional hazards models of cumulative average drinking after first pregnancy were updated to compute relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals during the follow-up until menopause.
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